1st Edition

Advances in Environmental Psychology Volume 2: Applications of Personal Control

Edited By A. Baum, J. E. Singer, Jerome L. Singer Copyright 1981
    206 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    How do people manage their environments? What processes are basic to the interactions between people and their environments? These questions are central to almost all areas of psychology but in a more narrow sense are the heart of environmental psychology. Some environmental studies focus on the antecedents of person-environment interactions, others on the effects of the environment on the individual, and others on outcomes. Still others focus on the processes by which people attempt to manipulate their surroundings. This volume, the second in a series, is concerned with one of these processes - control, actual and perceived, that individuals exercise over their environment.

    PREFACE, 1. PERCEIVED CONTROL:A REVIEW AND EVALUATION OF THERAPEUTIC IMPLICATIONS, 2. A MODEL OF LIFE CRISIS, CONTROL, AND HEALTH OUTCOMES: CARDIAC REHABILITATION AND RELOCATION OF THE ELDERLY, 3. ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND THE TYPE A RESPONSE, 4. DESTRUCTION AND PERCEIVED CONTROL, 5. JUDGMENT OF CONTINGENCY: ERRORS AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS, 6. INTRINSIC MOTIVATION FOR CONTROL: FACT OR FICTION, 7. DEPRESSION MAINTENANCE AND INTERPERSONAL CONTROL, AUTHOR INDEX, SUBJECT INDEX

    Biography

    Andrew Baum and Jerome E. Singer